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#41
I'm a freelance writer.
I write mostly online content in behavioral health.
It doesn't really help playing bass.
However, growing up at reahearsals with my mom - a professional actor - then going to theatre school and working as a professional actor and director definitely helped, since I spent the whole first half of my life making art.
I got tired of being a broke theatre artist in my early 30s, and went to college for a degree in Rhetoric/Composition, which got me where I am today.
Bass is my "stay interested in something as I get older" hobby, but I did start on music early on in life, with piano lessons at ahe 6 and playing clarinet and saxophone in the elementary school band. And of course, like any good suburban kid, I've been messing with guitars since I was around 13.
 
#47
hbarcat said:
I paint HO scale train cars for railroad modeling hobbyists. I've been at it for 30 years with the same company.


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Having regular access to a professional paint shop is great for a person who sometimes has electric basses he wants to paint.
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just wanted to say - you do great work! :envy:
 
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#48
I design and program custom computer hardware. Sold my first bass to build my first computer, about 30 years ago.

I hope to take the path not taken and spend a lot of time on music once I mostly retire, maybe in 15-20 years.

Having an engineering background is a mixed blessing for playing bass: I can understand all the technical details, but I also can't ignore them when they irritate me. So I end up learning everything the hard way. I'm revising the electronics of my bass for the second time...
 
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taketwo said:
Having an engineering background is a mixed blessing for playing bass: I can understand all the technical details, but I also can't ignore them when they irritate me. So I end up learning everything the hard way. I'm revising the electronics of my bass for the second time...
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I get that. My standby bass is on it's (I think) 5th revision LOL. It's also been great being able to repair my amps when they break, though, so, yay! LOL

Had two years electrical/electronic engineering schooling, but never got to apply the engineering stuff as an electrical/electronic avionics technician/troubleshooter for the next 20+ years in the field.

Retired now and full-time housewife for my wife who still works (for about 2 more years). I'm the housekeeper who pays himself LOL.

Gotta go. Those dishes won't wash themselves... :)
 
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I retired in 2019, and I now teach online and do voice-over work. I started in radio in 1968 and I've narrated a bunch of stuff for radio, TV. educational videos and satellite programming. I recently finished almost 3 hours of voice-over for a series of Air Force training programs, and I'm working on a WWII era documentary now. My website is Signthatvoice.com.

Voice over and voice acting
 
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I retired in 2012 when I was 62, mostly because of health issues. From 1970 until 2012 I was in show business here in Hollywood, going from TV show usher, to cue card operator, to union set dresser and assistant prop master on many top movies. I majored in architecture in college, minored in photography, left school in my third year for show biz, but continued photography in between prop jobs. For the last 12 years, the staff photographer for the Los Angeles Lawyers Philharmonic Orchestra, Legal Voices Chorus and Big Band of Barristers.

I got into computers (Macintosh) in 1986, doing graphic design, and led me after retiring, to work as what used to be called an efficiency expert, hired by companies to analyze their operations and write software to fix the flaws in their systems.

I played guitar since I was fifteen in 1965, then switched to tenor ukulele in mid 2013 at 63, adding bass uke a year later, which has become my primary instrument, tenor uke and blues harmonica close behind.
 
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KohanMike said:
I retired in 2012 when I was 62, mostly because of health issues. From 1970 until 2012 I was in show business here in Hollywood, going from TV show usher, to cue card operator, to union set dresser and assistant prop master on many top movies. I majored in architecture in college, minored in photography, left school in my third year for show biz, but continued photography in between prop jobs. For the last 12 years, the staff photographer for the Los Angeles Lawyers Philharmonic Orchestra, Legal Voices Chorus and Big Band of Barristers.

I got into computers (Macintosh) in 1986, doing graphic design, and led me after retiring, to work as what used to be called an efficiency expert, hired by companies to analyze their operations and write software to fix the flaws in their systems.

I played guitar since I was fifteen in 1965, then switched to tenor ukulele in mid 2013 at 63, adding bass uke a year later, which has become my primary instrument, tenor uke and blues harmonica close behind.
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Architecture and photography have been constants in my life since school too. In fact we have a house of my design under construction now. And I just saw the Nikon Z8 introduction. Music, food, visual arts. So it continues.
 
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